Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each magnetic quantity to what it describes.
- Magnetisation
- Auxiliary field
- Curie temperature
- Hysteresis loop area
- Where a ferromagnet becomes paramagnetic
- A field whose curl counts free current only
- Energy dissipated per magnetisation cycle
- Magnetic moment per unit volume
Hints
- Two are fields, one is a temperature, one is an energy.
- Above a critical temperature, thermal motion destroys the domain ordering.
Show the answer
- Magnetisation → Magnetic moment per unit volume
- Auxiliary field → A field whose curl counts free current only
- Curie temperature → Where a ferromagnet becomes paramagnetic
- Hysteresis loop area → Energy dissipated per magnetisation cycle
Why
measures the aligned moments, keeps Ampère’s law usable, the Curie temperature is where ordering collapses, and the loop area is the energy paid per cycle.
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